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Tanith Lee is a British author primarily of fantasy novels, who has over 70 works published since starting her career in the 1970s. She wrote two episodes of the BBC TV series Blake's 7.

At some point in the 1980s or 1990s, a zine editor reports Tanith Lee's negative response to fanworks:

Based on Tanith Lee's Kill the Dead novel, which Blake's 7 actor Paul Darrow declared was based on the characters of Avon and Vila, ... [when Donald A. Wolheim] mentioned the zine to Ms. Lee, she was appalled. She was very concerned at that moment in time that any hint that her novel - which was currently out of print - might be construed as stepping on BBC copyright. The zine died a sudden and definitive death.[1]

By the 2000s, Lee appeared more positive towards fandom and fanworks. She guested at fancon Redemption 2003,[2] and politely declined an invitation to contribute to a projected sequel to the Blake's 7 zine TTBA.